[kictanet] Here’s the Real Way to Get Internet to the Next 4 Billion People

[Ali Hussein]

Brian

Great stuff! Lots of initiatives out there. Great to see that some are actually working!

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> On 21 Sep 2015, at 11:54 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> Indeed Kivuva,
> 
> This practical example can feature on the East African Internet
> Governance Forum, now that it is happening in Uganda this week and
> being co-hosted by the Ministry of ICT.
> 
> Regards
> 
>> On 9/21/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> On 21 September 2015 at 11:09, Brian Munyao Longwe via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> 
>>> We established a social enterprise that is using internet technologies to
>>> improve livelihoods for communities in this post-conflict regions. This
>>> is
>>> mainly through making high speed broadband available to rural communities
>>> at low cost. So far we have been able to establish points-of-presence in
>>> the towns of Gulu, Lira, Soroti and Mbale - NGOs, corporates and
>>> individuals alike have been flocking to take up the broadband services
>>> after years of poor quality and expensive services from the mobile
>>> operators who sell mainly data bundles that have poor performance. We
>>> ride
>>> on Uganda's national optical fiber network (owned by the ministry of
>>> ICT's
>>> National IT Authority - NITA-U). and from Kampala interconnect with a
>>> variety of bulk providers (Seacom, Liquid Telecom, Simbanet, BCS) who are
>>> connected to submarine networks via Mombasa. Our service approach has
>>> greatly challenged the internet services paradigm and scored greatly with
>>> our subscribers, many of whom enjoy better services in these rural towns
>>> than their colleagues/counterparts in the capital Kampala.
>> 
>> Thank you very much Brian for the great work. This is quite interesting.
>> There is an IGF 2015 track called "Policy Options for Connecting the Next
>> Billion". I am not sure if you have heard about it.
>> 
>> The short writeup of the same reads like this: "Technological advancement
>> in connectivity expanded broadband access and mobile penetration in recent
>> years. Three billion people were connected to the Internet by the end of
>> 2014. In spite of the progress achieved, more effort is necessary in order
>> to connect the next billion and to address the digital divide. The
>> identification of strategies to improve connectivity is timely due to the
>> ongoing process of reviewing the outcomes of the World Summit of the
>> Information Society (WSIS+10) and the discussion of the post-2015
>> Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  Collaboration between governmental
>> and non-governmental actors is key to meet this challenge and the
>> mutistakeholder nature of the IGF makes it a privileged space for
>> discussion. "
>> 
>> What next: Your implementation is great and can form a great policy option
>> for the IGF. We hope you are willing to contribute on the same. Local or
>> regional IGF initiatives are encouraged to contribute on how "we can
>> connect the next billion to the Internet". Here is the form created by the
>> IGF secretariat to collect feedback. We can then have it presented at the
>> global IGF in Brazil later in November.
>> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion/contributions
>> 
>> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion/contributions
>> 
>> Here is the landing page:
>> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> ______________________
>> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>> 
>> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on
>> higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
> 
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